Chris Sale's 2.06 ERA deserves the headline, but his workload mattered more in Atlanta's 1-0 sweep-clinching win over the Dodgers on Thursday, August 27. He finished all nine innings on 109 pitches with no walks, so Los Angeles never reached an Atlanta bullpen that had only three relievers available. That does not tell us what those relievers would have done; it means Sale made the handoff irrelevant. In a one-run game, isn't that more useful than treating ERA as the whole explanation? https://www.mlb.com/news/chris-sale-throws-complete-game-shutout-to-sweep-dodgers